No we do. We know that more money can be used to sway opinion and turn out enough voters for plausible deniability of vote fraud. We even have a psychological handle on why failure of representation in vote outcomes -aside from fraud arises - but we do not know why communities refuse collaboration to form another system of cooperation. Why no free schools outside the public have been created to work in 60 years.
Brian, it looks like we need to make an enemies list and unfortunately, the enemies hide behind the R after their name. When I came to this state, I floated the idea to a Conservative group, of using a billboard right adjacent to the I-84 and putting up there as a reminder to all of us new citizens to remember why they moved to the Gem state. I have learned much about the politics by people like you and a few others. I guess it comes down to we have to clean up our own house while taking on the idiot left. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Seeing the removal of access to porn to children in our libraries vote go down, was just another reminder of the enemy within.
Thanks for your thoughts on this Brian and especially your reference of Otto van Bismark. What a great reminder! Now I must do some catch-up reading there.
In several of your commentaries you have noted that Idaho is considered "Red" and that is true. But there is more than one definition of "Red." To tie my point to a bill, I will go to 1038. I "may" have reluctantly voted for it if I were in the senate. But it was never a "Conservative" bill. It was a bill for a conservative cause - school choice, I support that. But as Conservatives we want other things too.
1038 did not reduce the size of government, nor the budget, nor regulation. It seemed to create new things to do what we were already accomplishing without any of.
So it is with many Idahoans. They are "Red" and want more conservative action - less drama, less entanglements, cut taxes, fund the essentials, balance the budget and go home. Where is the grass roots demand for 300 new laws, new spending, new bureaucracies - none of which is a conservative approach?
With 1038, we couldn't even get our most ardent and fundamentalist beneficiary on board. That was clue to a wrong bill, badly conceived, and over-priced. The option is not to change out the senators who voted against the bill, but rather those who attempted to foist on Idaho's Red populace the wrong kind of "Red." We are Idaho Red, not pissed California Red.
Meanwhile my house payment goes up $80 a month in April due to property taxes.. Where is that bill? I can homeschool my granddaughter without the government's help. I can go to the library with her and supervise her reading choices. I can walk over to her school and review what is available to her there. So I don't need new government help with those things. What I cannot do is pay less property tax than what I am billed. That's Idaho Red.
To me, this was never a conservative or liberal effort. This is about ethics and protecting children from exposure to elements of society that they don't need exposure to via the public school system. It seems to me that those who have chosen to make a political statement around this have only self interest invested and nothing more. Your tax dollars are the same regardless and mine are being spent to corrupt children. That bothers me.
My preference would have been to give parents an option to remove their children from the agenda and environment that public schools provide and educate them elsewhere without being burdened with additional tuition to do so. Sure, they have a choice now but only if they can afford it. They, like you, pay taxes and have a mortgage payment.
Like it or not, government in Idaho has and will continue to get larger as witnessed by the governor's grab for yet more tax dollars in the name of, you guessed it, education. Make no mistake, he's Idaho red alright commonly known throughout the rest of the country as periwinkle at best and borderline to outright blue by common definition.
Imho (and as someone who grew up here and went to public schools here, as opposed to some who have moved here and decided that our school system is like Seattle's) we are a stronger country for being exposed to, and debating, ideas with which we disagree. The idea that our Idaho public school system is rife with "socialist" teachers and that the kiddos are looking at porn everyday and being taught to hate America is imaginary. Public education is enshrined in the Idaho Constitution, and has resided there since it was put there by people more conservative than any of us can imagine back in the 19th century. I am all for tinkering with public education, giving parents a say, etc. etc. But fantasizing about "abolishing" public education seems like a waste of time and hands the other side a political issue. Signed, Otto von Bismarck...
No we do. We know that more money can be used to sway opinion and turn out enough voters for plausible deniability of vote fraud. We even have a psychological handle on why failure of representation in vote outcomes -aside from fraud arises - but we do not know why communities refuse collaboration to form another system of cooperation. Why no free schools outside the public have been created to work in 60 years.
Brian, it looks like we need to make an enemies list and unfortunately, the enemies hide behind the R after their name. When I came to this state, I floated the idea to a Conservative group, of using a billboard right adjacent to the I-84 and putting up there as a reminder to all of us new citizens to remember why they moved to the Gem state. I have learned much about the politics by people like you and a few others. I guess it comes down to we have to clean up our own house while taking on the idiot left. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Seeing the removal of access to porn to children in our libraries vote go down, was just another reminder of the enemy within.
Thanks for your thoughts on this Brian and especially your reference of Otto van Bismark. What a great reminder! Now I must do some catch-up reading there.
In several of your commentaries you have noted that Idaho is considered "Red" and that is true. But there is more than one definition of "Red." To tie my point to a bill, I will go to 1038. I "may" have reluctantly voted for it if I were in the senate. But it was never a "Conservative" bill. It was a bill for a conservative cause - school choice, I support that. But as Conservatives we want other things too.
1038 did not reduce the size of government, nor the budget, nor regulation. It seemed to create new things to do what we were already accomplishing without any of.
So it is with many Idahoans. They are "Red" and want more conservative action - less drama, less entanglements, cut taxes, fund the essentials, balance the budget and go home. Where is the grass roots demand for 300 new laws, new spending, new bureaucracies - none of which is a conservative approach?
With 1038, we couldn't even get our most ardent and fundamentalist beneficiary on board. That was clue to a wrong bill, badly conceived, and over-priced. The option is not to change out the senators who voted against the bill, but rather those who attempted to foist on Idaho's Red populace the wrong kind of "Red." We are Idaho Red, not pissed California Red.
Meanwhile my house payment goes up $80 a month in April due to property taxes.. Where is that bill? I can homeschool my granddaughter without the government's help. I can go to the library with her and supervise her reading choices. I can walk over to her school and review what is available to her there. So I don't need new government help with those things. What I cannot do is pay less property tax than what I am billed. That's Idaho Red.
To me, this was never a conservative or liberal effort. This is about ethics and protecting children from exposure to elements of society that they don't need exposure to via the public school system. It seems to me that those who have chosen to make a political statement around this have only self interest invested and nothing more. Your tax dollars are the same regardless and mine are being spent to corrupt children. That bothers me.
My preference would have been to give parents an option to remove their children from the agenda and environment that public schools provide and educate them elsewhere without being burdened with additional tuition to do so. Sure, they have a choice now but only if they can afford it. They, like you, pay taxes and have a mortgage payment.
Like it or not, government in Idaho has and will continue to get larger as witnessed by the governor's grab for yet more tax dollars in the name of, you guessed it, education. Make no mistake, he's Idaho red alright commonly known throughout the rest of the country as periwinkle at best and borderline to outright blue by common definition.
Imho (and as someone who grew up here and went to public schools here, as opposed to some who have moved here and decided that our school system is like Seattle's) we are a stronger country for being exposed to, and debating, ideas with which we disagree. The idea that our Idaho public school system is rife with "socialist" teachers and that the kiddos are looking at porn everyday and being taught to hate America is imaginary. Public education is enshrined in the Idaho Constitution, and has resided there since it was put there by people more conservative than any of us can imagine back in the 19th century. I am all for tinkering with public education, giving parents a say, etc. etc. But fantasizing about "abolishing" public education seems like a waste of time and hands the other side a political issue. Signed, Otto von Bismarck...